I am using site_url() function and it returns the address as http://vip.local/cc where I can see that WP automatically adds unnecessary backslashes. Is this for some escaping purpose? I tried using stripslashes function but that didn’t fix it either. Any help?
WordPress – site_url() returns with additional backslashes
You can simply use
stripslashes([string]).This removes all backslashes (required they need to be) from the given string.
Edit
Code I tested with: PHPaste Snippet.
Edit 2
Code is being used with
json_encode([array]), automatically adding slashes.